Quoting Ann Catelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
--- "Susan B. Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've toyed with trying to transform one of the
english columbines
Elizabethan patterns into the American columbine.
Ours is not as "fat" and the spurs are *much*
longer.
http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Wildflower/Images/columbine.jpg
Susan, the (spring) wildflower junkie
The Eastern columbine that grows wild in my yard, but
is endangered, looks just like the picture in your
link.
The Western columbine tends towards blue & is shorter
by a lot, from what I've seen.
I did some poking around the Flora of North America today, and there are
(or were) 14 species of columbine in North America -- white, yellow, and
colored like out eastern columbine -- but Aquilegia canadensis, the
eastern columbine, is the only one that we have in the east!
you can see some pictures here
http://snipurl.com/mnd7
This is the plants.usda.gov website. It's a neat place if you're into
plants.
Susan
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Susan Farmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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